Andrew Sullivan on the 'Gay Diaspora'

There is a a huge loophole in the stance that gay marriages/unions should be state issue. Only heterosexuals can legally marry and bring into the country foreigners. Homosexuals cannot. Here, the relationship between gay rights and immigration intersect, causing some to argue that gay rights is a federal issue. A reader of Andrew Sullivan:

Heterosexual citizens have the right to marry foreign partners and bring them legally into the country with the right to live and work and even seek citizenship. Homosexual citizens don't have that right; they must either choose another citizen as a partner or leave the country in order to be with their foreign partners. I know this issue intimately because both my children have foreign partners. My heterosexual daughter was able to marry and give her foreign partner the right to live here. My homosexual son can't do that, and his partner isn't even allowed to enter the U.S., so he has no choice but to live in his partner's country. The people who claim to be protecting families are not doing anything to protect mine. Instead, they've torn it apart.